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Spring Arbor HITS

HITS (High Interest Title Selections) is a hand-selected list of titles that we predict will be of great interest to your customers.

Nonfiction

Most of Max Lucado’s books encourage readers to get on their knees and pray. This one asks them to roll up their sleeves and act. Using the first acts of the apostles as his foundation, Lucado inspires individuals to find their call and purpose in service to others in Out Live Your Life

The husband-and-wife team of Chris and Kerry Shook presents a 30-day program to help people repair and deepen the relationships in their lives in Love at Last Sight.

In his timely and powerful new book, Dr. Creflo Dollar shares transforming ways to deal with the challenges and hardships everyone faces today. He not only helps those who are struggling to identify their troubles, he also shows them how to find the path to true happiness in Winning in Troubled Times.

Author and music artist Mark Lowry offers an expanded view of his highly successful Christmas song, Mary, Did You Know in this refreshed text which includes a new foreword with inspirational insights by Gloria Gaither and a CD of the song sung by Lowry and the Gaither Vocal Band.

With helpful self-assessments and surprising revelations, God Attachment by Dr. Tim Clinton and Joshua Straub moves from worldwide statistics to personal challenge, offering the means to become securely attached to God in a way that can have positive effects on attitudes, approach to life, and overall life satisfaction.

Drawing on personal stories from his years as a football player, a coach, and a U.S. Congressman, Tom Osborne shows rather than tells about the importance of living a life grounded in God in Secrets to Becoming a Leader.

Experiencing the Presence of God is a never-before-published collection of teachings on the Book of Hebrews, adapted from sermons given to A.W. Tozer’s parishioners. The renowned pastor and teacher examines what it means to dwell in God’s presence.

Priscilla Shirer, a popular women’s conference speaker, author, and Bible teacher, invites readers to become acquainted with the Voice that has spoken from a fire and a cloud, and hear from some of the most well-known Christians in history, who discuss how God speaks to them in Discerning the Voice of God.

In The Goodness of God, bestselling author Randy Alcorn delivers a concise, easy-to-read exploration of the problems of suffering and evil, based on the book If God Is Good.

Robin McGraw, the wife of television talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw, reveals how she stays vibrant, energetic, and healthy at the age of 55, and urges women to take care of themselves as if their lives depend on it in What’s Age Got to Do with It?

Shocking and eye-opening but essential reading in these turbulent days, What in the World Is Going On? by David Jeremiah is a unique book that cuts through the hundreds of theories to identify the essential 10 most important Bible prophecies.

Leonard Sweet sets out to revolutionize readers’ understanding of evangelism. In Nudge he defines evangelism as "nudge"--awakening each other to the God who is already there.

The revised and updated edition of Chosen But Free by Norman Geisler provides a scriptural framework for how real human freedom can exist alongside God’s sovereignty.

An ideal gift for any cat lover, Best Friends Forever: Me and My Cat by Patricia Mitchell includes 40 heartwarming mediations on life, faith, and love inspired by these furry friends.

Cindy Easley reveals that women desperately want to experience the graceful waltz where both the husband and wife are in harmony--each dancing their God-given role. Each example in Dancing with the One You Love will help married or engaged women gain appreciation for God’s will for marriage.

Written by Craig Groeschel, the pastor of the thriving LifeChurch.tv, Dare to Drop the Pose is a refreshingly raw and real book addressing the 10 things Christians think but are afraid to say.

As a most sought-after and successful Christian speaker on fashion and beauty, Shari Braendel uses her 20-plus years of experience in the fashion field to inspire and motivate women of all ages and sizes to appreciate themselves regardless of what they look like or how much they weigh, and to understand exactly how they can look their best in Good Girls Don’t Have to Dress Bad.


Fiction

Usher in the holiday season with An Amish Christmas featuring the original stories "A Miracle for Miriam" by Kathleen Fuller; "A Choice to Forgive" by Beth Wiseman; "One Child" by Barbara Cameron; and an additional novella from Kelly Long entitled "Christmas Cradles."

From pure innocence to utter despair, Havah is the acclaimed, inspiring novel from Tosca Lee, based on the epic life of the Bible’s Eve.

In Brandilyn Collins’ Deceit it’s been seven years since the disappearance of her best friend, Linda Jackson, and skip-tracer Joanne Weeks must locate a witness who can put the man who Joanne knows to be Linda’s killer behind bars--before he silences Joanne for good.

After surviving the Rwandan genocide, missionary May Seymour retreats to heal on the farm of Claudius Borne. Years later, Mary learns an old college flame is on death row and is refusing to appeal his sentence. Can she convince him to grab hold of life once again in Resurrection in May by Lisa Samson?

In Angel Song by Sheila Walsh and Kathryn Cushman, Annie Fletcher returns to Charleston to see her sister, Sarah, and finds herself riding in the back of an ambulance, watching helplessly as Sarah fights for life. Soon, God begins to reveal Himself to Annie both in her newfound friends and through heartrending supernatural events.



Children & Teens

Anthony DeStefano, the bestselling author of 10 Prayers God Always Says Yes To, brings young readers an enchanting Christmas story of the Star of Bethlehem and the message of redeeming love in Little Star.

Bringing to life the story of Jesus’ birth with a one-of-a-kind pop-up book, One Special Night, written by Lori C. Froeb and illustrated by Claudine Gevry, combines child-friendly text with beautiful artwork and pop-up dioramas.